“Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the g...” — Mary Astell Quote

“Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.”

“If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.”

“The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.”

“My design teachers were teaching us how to mass-manufacture; how to create something, but it's not lasting - it's always about the next trend, it's the next thing.”

“Words must be matched by action if change is to become lasting.”

“It is beautiful to see two people in a lasting relationship.”